Autism, Neurodiversity and Musicality: Historical, Scientific, and Cultural Perspectives (in englischer Sprache)
Pamela Heaton is Professor emerita at Goldsmiths, University of London, and Honorary Visiting research Professor at the Royal Northern College of Music. Her research interests are multidisciplinary, spanning human development and music psychology, and her early study of autism and music was awarded the British Psychological Society prize for outstanding doctoral research contributions to Psychology. During her career she forged research collaborations with leading researchers across Europe and North America and has managed UK based and multinational research projects funded by the ESRC and the EU. She is frequently invited to speak at conferences and research events, including for example, at the Max Planck Institute in Leipzig, the Sante Fe chamber music festival and the Karolinska Institute in Sweden. Her recent book on the Psychology of Music and Autism documents the first-person accounts of autistic musicians and reflects the increasing influence of the Neurodiversity Movement on her research. https://www.gold.ac.uk/psychology/staff/heaton/
This talk will explore evolving concepts of autism and their implications for science, for autistic people and for public understanding. Musicality is a spontaneously developing human trait, and whilst autistic musicality has been studied within cognitive science, the most important insights have come from studies documenting autistic people’s uses of music in everyday life and their insights into the personal and experiential factors they associate with their musical strengths. This work highlights the complexity and richness of musical engagement in autism and challenges simplistic ideas about intellectual, emotion and social strengths and difficulties in individuals with this diagnosis.
Raum 201 und auf Zoom: https://hslu.zoom.us/j/68626645457?pwd=W4oRfz5XY8ta0BNg7ciuhyWYt255sy.1
